Tuesday, April 17, 2012

(CNN) -- While U.N. monitors try to observe a so-called cease-fire in Syria, the U.S. ambassador the United Nations said President Bashar al-Assad's regime has lost all credibility.

"They have lied to the international community, lied to their own people. And the biggest fabricator of the facts is Assad himself," Susan Rice said Monday night. "His representatives are merely doing his bidding and under probably some not insignificant personal duress."

A handful of observers from the United Nations are in Syria to monitor the progress of the tenuous cease-fire, which was supposed to go into effect last Thursday. Read More